Cantor’s Body (a reading of Grundlagen)
The mathematician Georg Cantor published “Grundlagen…” in 1883, a major text of which we propose another reading.
27 July 2024
Category: Homo Mathematicus
Traces of Man in mathematics
The Proof by Googol (2) Numbers and Mathematic
Mathematic threads numbers without any limit, up to infinity and beyond. Ultrafinitism, by refuting this “right”, isn’t it mistaken?
11 March 2023
The Proof by Googol (1) Numbers and Progress
Progress is correlated to the increase of numbers in the direction of “googol”, an allegorical number “invented” in 1940 by Edward Kasner.
28 January 2023
The black hole Pōwehi and the Mathematics
The image unveiled to the world in 2019 once again validates Einstein’s theory and wonderfully illustrates the awesome power of mathematics.
18 December 2021
The Body of René Thom (singularities)
In the footsteps of the mathematician-philosopher René Thom, we set out to meet these “singularities” that seem to escape the digital grip.
20 March 2021
Ecce Homo Mathematicus
The fulfillment of all human tasks by “intelligent” machines is a myth difficult to demystify, but Homo Mathematicus could help us!
3 October 2020
Body and Language Games
Mathematical activity is an excellent illustration of the coupling of the body and language games, i.e. their reciprocal modifications when they “dialogue”.
7 March 2020
Women and Mathematics: still a long way to go!
Why are there so few women in the higher reaches of mathematics? Review of this old and difficult question.
8 August 2018
Liu Hui overcomes a Monster
Liu Hui, 3rd century Chinese mathematician, overcame one of the first mathematical “monsters”: the irrational number.
19 August 2017
Turing’s Body
The “body” of Alan Turing, precursor of computer science and artificial intelligence, has been “invited” in his research, even the most abstract
1 July 2017